2006 in Mexico

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Vicente Fox, Felipe Calderón
• Interior Secretary :
• Secretary of Foreign Affairs :
• Communications Secretary :
• Education Secretary :
• Secretary of Defense :
• Secretary of Navy:
• Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare:
• Secretary of Welfare:
• Secretary of Public Education:
• Tourism Secretary :
• Secretary of the Environment :
• Secretary of Health :

  Supreme Court

• President of the Supreme Court:

  Governors

• Aguascalientes:
• Baja California:
• Baja California Sur:
• Campeche:
• Chiapas:
• Chihuahua:
• Coahuila:
• Colima:
• Durango:
• Guanajuato:
• Guerrero:
• Hidalgo:
• Jalisco:
• State of Mexico:
• Michoacán:
• Morelos:
• Nayarit:
• Nuevo León:
• Oaxaca:
• Puebla:
• Querétaro:
• Quintana Roo:
• San Luis Potosí:
• Sinaloa:
• Sonora:
• Tabasco:
• Tamaulipas:
• Tlaxcala:
• Veracruz:
• Yucatán:
• Zacatecas:

  Events

• The Broad Progressive Front is founded
• The Garros Galería is established.
• The Televisa Law is approved.
• The Biosphere Reserve of the Sierra of Huautla is declared by the UNESCO in Morelos.
• The Biosphere Reserve of Huatulco is declared by the UNESCO in Oaxaca.
• January: The Other Campaign
• January 25: Juana Barraza is apprehended.
• February 4: Sheraton Maria Isabel Hotel and Towers incident.
• February 19: Pasta de Conchos mine disaster
• March: Santiago Mexquititlán raid
• April 10: 2006 Mexico DC-9 drug bust
• April 17: Maltrata bus crash
• May: Jojutla crater discovered on Mars by astronomer Andres Eloy Martínez Rojas.
• May 3: 2006 civil unrest in San Salvador Atenco
• May 27: Eutelsat 113 West A is launched.
• June 17: Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca
• June 27: Ángel Albino Corzo International Airport inaugurated.
• June 28: Miss Latin America 2006 held in Riviera Maya.
• September 2: Nuestra Belleza México 2006
• September 16: the Faro del Comercio is re-inaugurated.
• November 10: The government of Mexico City approves a law on civil unions, becoming the first local government to allow same sex unions in Mexico.
• December 11: Beginning of the Mexican Drug War

  Elections

• 2006 Mexican general election
• 2006 Chiapas state election
• 2006 Colima state election
• 2006 Mexican Federal District election
• 2006 Guanajuato state election
• 2006 Jalisco state election
• 2006 Nuevo León state election
• 2006 Sonora state election
• 2006 State of Mexico election
• 2006 Tabasco state election

  Popular culture

Sports

• Primera División de México Clausura 2006
• Primera División de México Apertura 2006
• 2006 InterLiga
• 2005 Copa Sudamericana Finals
• Mexico compete at the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany.
• Vuelta Chihuahua Internacional
• 2006 Desafío Corona season
• 2006 Gran Premio Telmex
• 2006 Rally México
• 2006 Mexican Figure Skating Championships
• Homenaje a Dos Leyendas
• 2006 Centrobasket Women in Mexico City.
• 2006 Men's Pan-American Volleyball Cup in Baja California.
• Mexico at the 2006 Winter Paralympics

  Music

Film

• Una película de huevos
• Efectos secundarios – September 1
• Pretendiendo
• Pan's Labyrinth – October 2
• Así del precipicio
• Cansada de besar sapos – December

  Literature

TV

Telenovelas

• Heridas de Amor
• La fea más bella
• Código postal – May 22

  Notable deaths

• January 1 - Mapita Cortés, 75, Puerto Rican -born actress of the cinema of Mexico
• January 13 - Raúl Anguiano, 90, painter and muralist, heart failure.
• February 10 - Juan Soriano, 85, painter and sculptor.
• February 12 - Juan Sánchez-Navarro y Peón, 92, entrepreneur and co-founder of the National Action Party.
• March 7 - Ludwik Margules, 72, theatre director, cancer.
• March 29 - Salvador Elizondo, 73, writer.
• April 5 - Armando Labra, 62, economist.
• April 20 - Miguel Zacarías Nogaim, 101, film director.
• April 30 - Beatriz Sheridan, 71, actress and director, heart attack.
• May 4 - Valentin Trujillo, 55, actor, heart attack.
• May 22 - Lilia Prado, 78, actress, multiple organ failure.
• May 23 - Ángel Fernández, 80, sports broadcaster, renal failure.
• July 10 - Blanca Torres, 78, actress, thromboembolic.
• August 4 - Julio Galán, 47, painter
• October 9 - Mario Moya Palencia, 73, politician, heart attack.
• October 24 - Rafael Ramírez Heredia, 67, writer, lung cancer.
• November 1 - Daniel García "Huracán Ramírez", 80, wrestler, heart attack.
• November 6 - Miguel Aceves Mejía, 90, singer, bronchitis.
• November 19 - Francisco Quirós Hermosillo, General. Cancer.
• November 23 - Jesús Blancornelas, 70, journalist, cancer.